I had a friend message me today, we got to talking about how to stay on track. I'm really good about sticking to my plan. Sure, I'm not perfect, I do on occasion have a piece of cake at a birthday party, but mostly, I just don't want it, and the longer I stay away from sugar, the more, I'm not terribly interested. I like to focus on what I can have rather than what I cannot.
While I was in Nebraska with my kids for a week, I stayed on plan. It wasn't hard, we saved a lot of money by not going out to eat. I simply made sure we had a room with a fridge, and a microwave and brought a crock pot with us. My crock pot has a separate base that can also be used as a griddle. You can probably get away with also using a cooler instead of a fridge, but you need to be careful to keep things cool. I bought chicken, and ground beef and whatever I wanted to go with those things. My kids still eat bread, so we had buns for sloppy joes and taco shells for their tacos, cheese and sour cream and guacamole.
I cooked the chicken or ground beef in the crock pot for dinner that night and then put the leftovers away to eat another day and we just used the microwave to heat stuff up. It was super simple and made what could have been an expensive trip, a lot cheaper, and mine and my kids bellies were always full. We didn't worry about breakfast because the hotel had breakfast every day. But I could have chosen to cook eggs for sure, since I had a griddle available with my crock pot. Some people might choose to eat out more often when they are on vacation, but honestly, I would eat the same things, and it took virtually no effort to do it this way.
We are planning on leaving for a trip for Vegas (Yay! RollerCon!) and I plan to do the same thing with a trip to the grocery store the first day. I'm going to pack seasonings and whatever I can and because we are flying SouthWest, I'll just pack my second bag with the crock pot and whatever else I want to bring with me. I really don't eat for the sake of eating. I eat when I'm hungry. So this works really well for me. But we will see how my husband fairs this time around. The kids didn't complain at all!
This morning one of my friends messaged me because I seem to have a lot of willpower when it comes to this sort of stuff. The best way I could explain it was to say that I look at carbs or junk the same as spending money on an ugly, unflattering piece of clothing. No way would I go into a store and spend money on something that didn't look good on me. So when I think of eating junk, I consider that. I consider junk/carbs as an unflattering shirt. I certainly don't want to wear it! Why would I buy it? It makes it easier for me to pass this stuff by. Same as if I were to go to someone's house. If someone wanted to give me something that wasn't going to look good on me, I wouldn't take it. I know that all that extra junk isn't going to look good on me. So I just leave it for someone else.
Do what's best for you!!
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